Posted by Mike Field on May 12, 2015 at 15:16:16 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Dick's bell ringing mechanism posted by Peter Hyland on May 12, 2015 at 07:35:24:
It was also something I'd picked up on when I first read the story, X years ago (where X tends to infinity).
We discussed this here some years ago. One or two people thought it was an optical illusion -- a bit like the spinning lady where you can't tell whether she's going clockwise or anticlockwise -- but I'm afraid that never satisfied me.
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